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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 7562767" data-attributes="member: 87792">Lucas has been good at two things. Gathering a strong team of people around him and finding and using cool new tech. A good director he wasn't - indeed his version of A New Hope was terrible.[video=youtube;GFMyMxMYDNk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMyMxMYDNk[/video]The Last Jedi did not even come close to flopping - it just got some people really annoyed, and as far as my own personal enjoyment was concerned it was in the best three (with Empire in first and along side A New Hope). It also made a better ROI than Rogue One (and was a better film and less of a mess all round; cut the nostalgia off Rogue One and there's little left to the point Jyn Erso's best line was only in the trailer and she and several other characters were utterly inconsistent). Solo flopped because it was not a terribly well done story that no one really wanted - Han Solo does not need much of a back story and it didn't push anything forward.And yes, Kylo Ren is the big villain and is the second best villain the entire Star Wars saga has ever seen, behind only Darth Vader himself. Possibly Rey can defeat him with a lightsaber - but so what if she can? If Rey defeating Kylo Ren with a lightsaber is how it ends then it will be proof positive that Episode 9 has forgotten what makes Star Wars. Seriously, when has a lightsaber fight been a good resolution? Obi-Wan lost in A New Hope. Luke lost in Empire. Luke won in Return of the Jedi by throwing away his lightsaber. Obi Wan killed Darth Maul (seriously, I ignore that ridiculous piece of canon) in The Phantom Menace - solving little and it was The Phantom Menace. Anakin vs Dooku was not a win for the good guys. Yoda vs The Emperor resolved nothing. And Obi Wan vs Anakin? Duels solve nothing except minor enemies in Star Wars. The crucial moments have been face-heel and heel-face turns in the Star Wars saga (both of Anakin) - and unlike Anakin Kylo Ren chooses to openly and deliberately be evil. Oh, and he's actually more powerful than Vader; Vader didn't hold blaster bolts in mid air, and he needed a droid to interrogate with.Or in short I disagree with just about everything the OP has written except that Star Wars Battlefront is not a match for either the 90s or the 00s Star Wars computer games. The X Wing saga and KOTOR have strong legacies for good reason while EA has messed up Battlefront.</blockquote>

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